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Comment · 5 years ago
This is awesome!

Anyone discover any cool graphs to share?

For example, the simplest one producing something interesting I've found so far is:

  t%x
Which creates a growing jagged triangular graph when you press "play" for the "t" constant.

Naturally, this can be built upon to make weirder and weirder graphs, ex:

  sin(t%x)
Comment · 5 years ago
Gotta love the "Customers also viewed these products" section on that page, for example:

"Salt Block Grilling: 70 Recipes for Outdoor Cooking with Himalayan Salt Blocks"

Comment · 5 years ago
Looks cool, thanks for sharing.

Just a quick feedback note, under the "free tutorials" section, I scrolled passed the images thinking they were just gifs. Then got to the bottom of the page thinking, "Hmm, It really would have been helpful if he included an example video..." Then scrolled back to the top and through all the content again to see if I missed something. I tried hovering over the "gif" and then realized it was a link to YouTube.

Long story short, I think it would help the reader to have a "play button" or small icon overlayed on the image to indicate that it's a playable video, or (better?) embed the YouTube video directly in that space so the user doesn't have to leave the page.

Hope this helps, but open to feedback if I'm just an outlier. You can try the change in an A/B test, and see if the conversion rate goes up for people who visit the site AND watch an example video.

Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
There's https://millionshort.com/

> The search engine, which brands itself as “more of a discovery engine,” allows users to filter the top million websites on the internet out of their search, resulting in a unique set of results and placing an emphasis on content discovery. This approach to search is also designed to combat the impact that aggressive black and grey hat SEO practices have on mainstream search results.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Short

Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
This may be a dumb question, but is there really a "yup that conspiracy actually happened" book? Not literally a book with that title, but is there some resource that has a list of these?
Comment · 6 years ago
Anyone catch the price? Or is this one of those "contact sales" products...
Comment · 6 years ago
I wonder if players will be able to use this to prepare for opponents. For example, knowing where to hit and "seeing how they typically react" and then predicting where they'll most likely to return the ball.

If so, this could be expanded to other sports, maybe even team sports, where you can test set plays against the simulated defense.

Comment · 6 years ago
Is it just me, or is it a little disingenuous to write the claim "...improve the accuracy of real time ETAs by up to 50% in places like Berlin, Jakarta, São Paulo, Sydney, Tokyo, and Washington D.C."

When the actual numbers listed for those cities are:

  Berlin - 21%
  Jakarta - 22%
  São Paulo - 23%
  Sydney - 43%
  Tokyo - not listed
  Washington D.C. - 29%
Comment · 6 years ago
Edit: (overwritten since can't delete a comment if someone replies?)
Comment · 6 years ago
1000 years from now, I can only imagine the hidden Y3K bugs...

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